we've been round this one before several timesAs far as we can tell (as as you don't mention the model its impossible to be sure) Advent don't load any special software for the camera on many of their laptops. They expect you to do what most people do with webcams, and either use Skype or Windows Live Messenger. You don't need anything else, really

Try this link for the webcam driver
http://nowdownloadall.com/servers.asp?PID=0cdfe76c-1849-49fd-acb3-44e095532314&ts=10/10/2010%204:12:05%20PM&q=webcam%20driver%20for%20advent%20roma%202001&cr=1
click on the uk server and save it to the desktop. the run it, it should install itself

Sorry ignore the previous link. just tried it for you it doesn't work. this link takes you to a site where you can get a driver recovery cd which has all the drivers for that model laptop with win 7 on it.
http://www.recovery-cd.com/system/Advent/AdventRoma/Advent-Roma-2000-Windows-7-Recovery-CD-427225.html

open the control, click on the system icon, on the left hand side you should see the device manager. open this and find the web cam. If there is a driver problem it should have a little yellow triangle on it. you should be able to download a driver update buy click the web cam and then on update driver

Now we actually have the model number we can actually start looking things up, and the camera on that one can be manually enabled / disabled by hitting the Fn & F11 keys togetherThe camera probably just needs turning on...

Its tells you this in the manual which would have been supplied with it. Theres a copy online at the support site

DSG have excelled themselves again with this model. Even thought its listed on the "tech Guys" website there are NO driver downloads for it. maybe Win7 has them all preinstalled?

Heres the deal, yes fn f11 does switch the camera on off, but when i do this to use the webcam in skype, if i have turned the laptop back on from the previous day, the camera is not found by skype again. What can i do to resolve? Any help please!

it sounds as if the camera is "off" by default. You need to turn it "on" when you need to use it.That is a very simple and sensible security decision to make it harder for anyone to remote access your compyter

Advent Roma 2000 webcam is not being recognised by the laptop. there is now blue light showing to indicate the webcam is off. FN and F11 are working fine and webcam is being recognized as on and off but still no blue light. it is not working at all and skype says it is being used with another application which needs to be closed but it isn't being used. i have checked and checked. i tried using the software installer disk which also hasnt worked. please help..

My Advent Roma 3000 isn't working at all, no light, no device noticed, just a black screen on msn, skype youcam etc. And I have tried looking in 'my devices' and it only says I have an audio and microphone device, and the troubleshooter said there isn't any problems with the hardware. I have also pressed Fn and F11 as it has an icon of a video camera on it so I thought it would trigger an on/off function for the webcam, but didn't seem to react in any way when pressed.Would be grateful if somebody could help me fix it in a different way than the ideas posted on here as it hasn't been working for around a year. Thank you!

i have now with your help and the link provided fn and f7 got a message the webcam is on appearing on the screen of the desktop , however the camera is still now working, what else am i supposed to do, it all seems awfully tricky, i have had this laptop for a year and a half and jsut gave up when i got it, can anyone help

heres the deal, i have an advent roma 2000. My webcam was working fine and then about 2 weeks ago i went to use it and it didnt work. So i searched the internet and cant find anything about it. I have tried all the solutions on the forum that have been suggested and still nothing. The web cam light comes on and off when i press fn f11 but that laptop doesnt seem to recognise the web cam. when i go on skype/msn to use it it says that i need to plug in my web cam. Meaning that the laptop has recognised the web cam. Please could someone help me on how to get it working again, thanks! :D

thank you very much for your reply. I have gone onto the link and downloaded the driver that i need. But when i come to open it using 7-zip as its a RAR format is says that the "file is broken" and i cannot download it. Is their anywhere else i can get it from? thanks!

i have now managed to download it by clicking on the Japan link instead of the Europe one. But still i cannot use the webcam. All that seems to do is bring up "webcam on/off" when i press fn f11. My laptop doesn't seem to recognise the webcam still. is there any more advice you could give me? it would be much appreciated, thanks jay

All I can suggest is to try to manually update the installed drivers by using device manager and switch them to something from that downloaded file.I'm guessing that for some reason the update didn't "take" correctlyOther than that, ring the Advent advice line though I realise thats a painful experience

I think the section of Device Manager for cameras, scanners and the like is called Imaging Devices. If your camera is not shown in Device Manager, then as far as your computer is concerned it is not there! But if it's receiving power and not installed correctly you should see some sort of Unknown Device reported in Device Manager.

i have a advent modena M201this is the second time my webcam has stopped working. it stop working the day after i got it. i had to restore it to factory settings for it to work again, haven't turned it on in awhile now when when i press FN F7 it says ''no function'' i looked in my drivers and the webcam driver has completely gone. can some one please help me

i have a advent modena M201this is the second time my webcam has stopped working. it stop working the day after i got it. i had to restore it to factory settings for it to work again, haven't turned it on in awhile now when when i press FN F7 it says ''no function'' i looked in my drivers and the webcam driver has completely gone. can some one please help me

I found all of these solutions to help a little but not fully get it to work.

In the end what worked was install the iso drivers as stated above and then in device manager i had under imaging devices one called usb 2.0 camera when i viewed properties it said it was disabled so enabled it and all working!

Hi I have a Advent roma 1000 which has been wiped clean. Now the webcam light comes on when i press fn and f11 but do not/ can not find the driver/software to open the webcam. I have tried using it on skype and so on also it does not work. Anyone please help

Try turning the camera on ...Fn&F7 together I think.
If that fails then you are faced with a problem
as for the Modena camera you need an updated driver, which is no longer listed on the PCWorld/Dixons website. Its not available from the Shuttle website either (Modenas are built by Shuttle - not Advent)
Shuttle won't talk to customers, so the only way you are going to fix it is to demand from PCWorlds support phone line that they send you the correct driver update

I have been receiving "No Function" message when i press Fn + F7. I have seen earlier posts but the link given in it http://www.knowhow.com/article.dhtml?articleReference=578does not work. Any other Way?

Didn't you post in November 2011 that you had solved your problem, Chirag? Anyway, have a look at this thread http://www.pciq.com/computer_support_forum/general/view_topic.asp?topicid=10826 (by copying and pasting the link into your browser address window.

Yes Alan B. I had posted late back in November 2011 but the problem came again. Also i have seen the post on that page and have download the drivers from the link given over there and had my query solved. Thank You very much.